Tuesday, 22 March 2011

A more natural version of Cancan, you still get a scarf from one ball, but with a more natural, daytime feel - love it!

The pattern is in the ballband, but basically it's 'Cast on 7 stitches by picking up every other loop, knit in garter stitch, cast off as normal' - I played a while and decided I prefered 9 stitches wide, and here's how I got on:

And I got lots of attention whilst knitting it whilst the kids were playing at our local junglegym, because it's brand new and looks complicated - but it's not, it's just a lovely result from a yarn that does all the hard work! One thing to note: knit the loose side, not the tight side of the yarn (it does say this in the instructions, but someone at our LYS missed this one and they struggled to get into a rhythm whilst sampling)

Ayway, thanks for looking, anything new for you project-wise this week?

LISTENING: To Grace and Dylan running riotEATING: A bananaDRINKING: My second coffeeWEARING: Jeans, white tee and cardigan (my go-to outfit!)FEELING: Fatigued after a nice weekendWEATHER: Dreary and weary, where did the sunshine go?WANTING: Quiet, and all of Ysolda Teague's patternsNEEDING: To load the dishwasherTHINKING: About my tags and CJENJOYING: Knitting my new wool (Rico Loopy - so names because it drives you...)WONDERING: If we should have another baby (sorry, a bit deep but honest!)

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

I realise I've not posted for a while - been suffering from dreaded lurgy ontop of everything else - as has everyone, I'm sure! I had a wonderful time at the Sarah's Cards March retreat, but still haven't gotten around to posting about that either...However, I saw this on Claire's blog, and thought that I would give it a go; I'm not promising every day, but would like to look back over it in time and see what I did :)